Thinking about all the reasons we have for praising our LORD.

Bad Company Corrupts

This is a puzzling world with actually conflicting laws and standards. Parents are obliged to care and provide for their children. But, when they do, they can be looked down upon, if they are considered to be possibly taking away the Constitutional rights of their children. What am I concerned about?

Some school libraries have a number of “award winning books” that are very sexually explicit and boldly promoting of the acceptance of immorality of various sorts. These sexually explicit books are often deemed appropriate for children of a very young, elementary age and reading level. When a parent is upset seeing their young children having access to such inappropriate books, they are disdained and looked down upon as radicals, who deny their children the “freedom of the press“.

1 Corinthians 15:33 says,

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”

Paul is telling us that any sort of “bad company” will corrupt “good morals”. That includes bad, immoral books and media of every sort. Parents can do their utmost to raise their children according to God’s word, but when an impressionable, young child is inundated with immoral standards in their schools, they will most likely take on immoral standards — or be more accepting of them.

It is not wise to protect immorality. But, it is wise to protect our children from immorality. That retains the moral basis of our Constitution and the freedoms of our democracy.

The First Amendment protects religion, speech, the press, and right to peaceably assemble. The Ninth Amendment protects us from those who wish to misconstrue, deny, or disparage anyone else’s Constitutional rights. With that said, Christian parents have a right to protect their young children from sexually explicit books and classroom activities that promote promiscuous immorality.

This is all related to 2 Peter 2:18-19,

For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error, promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved.

We should not want our children to be “overcome” and “enslaved” by any sort of “fleshly desires”, “sensuality”, or “corruption”. We are to be their loving guardians.

Looking to our Savior, we say, “Hallelujah! Lord, lead us through this world.”